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Continue reading →: In the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was: Crash!
Arghhh!!! What is wrong with Microsoft? How has one of the biggest software companies in the world got it so wrong? As you may know I recently escaped to a Mac to avoid the problematic and unappealing MS Vista, unfortunately I still do a lot of document editing and so…
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Continue reading →: The Switch is Flipped
In my last post I described why I have decided to switch to a Mac. Well a shiny new MacBook Pro rolled up earlier this week, I’ve had a few days to acclimatise, and its probably a good time to report on what life is like this side of the…
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Continue reading →: Switching to Mac
Right – that’s it. I’ve had enough. It’s time to say goodbye. I’m fed up of hourglasses, crappy modal dialog boxes, ugly UI and an OS that reboots itself without bothering to ask first. After 15 years of suffering its time to move on. I’ve decided to buy a Mac.…
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Continue reading →: Nativism vs. Literacy
I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the…
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Continue reading →: It should make us WinCE
I can’t bear it any longer. I can feel the rage building as I push forward through the crowd, people jostle and I duck a stray elbow. I catch a glimpse of him through the pressing bodies. I can’t believe no-one else has noticed. Most people seem enraptured, but some…
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Continue reading →: Does Portillo dream of electric pigs?
Mmmm… so the other night I caught a BBC Horizon programme hosted by Michel Portillo called ‘How to Kill a Human Being’. The point of the programme was to look into the various methods of execution used around the world – but particularly in the United States – to see…
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Continue reading →: There is no Guitar
Great article over at Gamers with Jobs about a near religious experience with Guitar Hero 3. I’ve not played Guitar Hero, but I can certainly relate to that moment in-the-zone when your senses extend beyond your body, and for a brief few moments you are one with the world. The…
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Continue reading →: The Descent (from above)
Earlier this week I managed to watch The Descent, a British horror flick that I missed on its cinema, rental, DVD, and satellite spiral. Luckily the nice folks at Channel 4 marched it into the last broadcast saloon known as terrestrial telly and I finally caught up with it. Unfortunately…
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Continue reading →: JISC CETIS Conference 2007This week I went to the JISC CETIS Conference in Aston as a panelist in the Semantic Structures for e-Learning session. After my bleak interaction with the e-learning community back in ICALT, I was pleasantly surprised to find a really progressive mood. In particular Mark Stiles gave a characteristically candid…
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Continue reading →: Why the Semantic Web hasn’t failed, and how we shouldn’t fix it(a position statement for the JISC CETIS conference, Aston, UK, held Nov 2007) I’ve been invited to present a position statement at this years JISC CETIS conference on the topic of Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning. The session aims to explore the potential of Semantic Web technologies in e-learning,…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 